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Second semester consisted of a book cover which I’ll dedicate a whole post about, and covers for the book Some Kind of Fairy Tale. I always make sure to read the books which I plan to illustrate for, it’s something that I believe is crucial in order to know what the book is actually about. From the books I pull small details to use for the book cover so that if anyone has already read the book will instantly recognise these details but also try to make these covers have “shelf appeal”. This really has been one of my favourite projects and I really hope it reflects in these covers!

Tropen Font Family comes in one weight with six different types of styles but compatible at the same time with each other. All fonts are hand-maden. It can be accessed to the extras with the standard keyboard codes which makes the use of font files very practical and easy. Tropen Font Family was designed carefully to create elegant works. It would be a perfect choice to design posters, affiches, logos, t-shirt and magazine prints, eye-pleasing typographic designs and more.

Jabana - a font for coffee and more. It was developed in 2013 by Nils Thomsen to be his first release at MyFonts. Inspired by having a “Schorle” at Hamburgs coffee bars. Super compressed to extended letter shapes in 5 widths, smooth handwritten marker curves and especially a wide range of opentype features define the large character set of Jabana. Each letter and punctuation got three simple varieties of alternates. This gives a nice looking handwritten nature to the font. They will be randomly chosen by the contextual alternates feature or even by hand via stylistic set (ss01, ss02). The whole characters for serious western european typography comes along Jabana. Beside the standard accented letters, fractions, mathematical glyphs, superiors and inferiors you will find alternates, extra bullets, different arrows, negative figures and roman numerals. Another reason for the amount of 1500 glyphs are the numerator and denominator letters which came from A-Z, punctuation and the extra bullets (ss09-16). They are meant to be used for decoration or distinction. Especially an opentype stylistic set gives an extra touch to it while putting a dot/line above denominators or underneath numerators (ss03+numr/dnom). If Jabana is too unique for your purpose have a look at “Jabana Alt”. This alternate fonts got standard uppercase proportions and a larger x-height for the lowercase. Extra! … If you need some awesome specials, “Jabana Extras” can help you to realize a fast and good looking design.

It's worth noting that the regular (non-slab) version of Lunchbox, as well as other hand-rendered type by Kimmy Design are currently being discounted for the next little while as well. Check'm out.